Hernando de Caballos

Hernando de Caballos was a Spanish conquistador.

Biography
Hernando de Caballos served in the army of Spain at the Fall of Granada in 1492, fighting in Christianity's last battle against the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula. Caballos later headed to the New World as a conquistador, spreading Christianity to the Americas by force. In 1498, Caballos was presented to Pope Alexander VI in Rome by Captain-General Juan Borgia, and Caballos brought with him a caged black panther and a box full of new cigarros, which were presented to the Pope in front of his court (the Pope initially though them "turds").